Christina Cameron

One of her former superiors, a chief executive officer of Parks Canada, said that she was "unquestionably the great lady of Canada's cultural heritage."

Christina Cameron studied at University of Toronto, Brown University and Laval University. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is architecture, historic preservation and cultural heritage. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Prix Gérard-Morisset and Member of the Order of Canada.

• Name — Christina Cameron • Honorific Suffix — FRSC • Born — 1945 • Birthplace — Toronto, Ontario, Canada • Education — Laval University • Occupation — * Architectural historian • writer • Awards — Order of Canada

In 1969, Cameron moved to Quebec City, where Parks Canada hired her to make an inventory of the city's historic buildings under the Canadian Inventory of Historic Building program. Her five-year assignment fuelled her passion for the architectural heritage of Quebec. Since the 1970s, she has published extensively and presented many papers on Canadian architecture, heritage management and World Heritage. She has served on the grants committee of the Getty Conservation Institute and has been involved in an international values-based heritage management project sponsored by the institute. • Illustration — The Royal Canadian Mint's Ottawa office is seen here in 2010. During her time as Heritage Policy Officer for Heritage Canada. Christina Cameron objected to the Mint's refurbishments of the 1990s which contravened the historical character of the edifice. Cameron held a senior civil servant position for Heritage Canada in the 1990s, when she enforced conservation policies. Cameron served as of Director General of National Historic Sites and Secretary of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. She worked for 35 years on behalf of the Canadian Public Service. In 1990, Cameron was appointed Head of the Canadian Delegation to the World Heritage Committee, a position she held until 2008. She was appointed president of the delegation in 1990 and 2008. In 2007, Cameron was appointed Chair of the World Heritage Committee. In 2008, she received the Government of Canada's Outstanding Achievement Award, the "highest honor of excellence in the federal public service". In 2012, Cameron held the Canada Research Chair in Architectural Heritage at the University of Montreal's School of Architecture. She was also vice-president of the Canadian Commission of UNESCO.